I am a PhD candidate in Rhetoric and Composition as well as an experienced teacher, writer, and student mentor. In the classroom, I work to embrace difference, foreground collaborative inquiry, and systematically address local issues.
As an instructor, my goal is to prepare students for confident and substantive participation in increasingly high stakes conversations in their communities, disciplines, and careers. I empower students to make critically informed, purposeful decisions about their writing in various genres, styles, situations, and technologies.
As a PhD candidate, I am interested in how digital technologies affect public discourses and spaces as well as how students and community residents compose (with/in) these complex networks. From public rhetorics to service-learning, critical media theory, and the digital humanities, I ask questions that explore how technology has changed the way we think about and navigate publics, shared spaces, communities, learning, and individual agency.
Interests: Rhetoric and Writing Studies, Composition Pedagogy, Service Learning, Public Rhetorics, Digital Technology, Community Mapping, Undergraduate Mentoring, Comics, Interpersonal Communications, Graffiti Writing, and Public Art.
As an instructor, my goal is to prepare students for confident and substantive participation in increasingly high stakes conversations in their communities, disciplines, and careers. I empower students to make critically informed, purposeful decisions about their writing in various genres, styles, situations, and technologies.
As a PhD candidate, I am interested in how digital technologies affect public discourses and spaces as well as how students and community residents compose (with/in) these complex networks. From public rhetorics to service-learning, critical media theory, and the digital humanities, I ask questions that explore how technology has changed the way we think about and navigate publics, shared spaces, communities, learning, and individual agency.
Interests: Rhetoric and Writing Studies, Composition Pedagogy, Service Learning, Public Rhetorics, Digital Technology, Community Mapping, Undergraduate Mentoring, Comics, Interpersonal Communications, Graffiti Writing, and Public Art.
Note: All graffiti writing featured on my site comes from Detroit, by Detroit writers. I like to spend time wandering the city in search of murals or tags that take advantage of delapidated spaces in interesting ways. Most of the photos are mine, but other photo credits are included at the bottom of the page.